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A Climatic Stability Approach to Prioritizing Global Conservation Investments

scientific article (publication date: 30 November 2010)

A comparative assessment of the financial costs and carbon benefits of REDD+ strategies in Southeast Asia

article

A conservation planning approach to mitigate the impacts of leakage from protected area networks

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

A global strategy for road building

scientific article

A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth's remaining moist tropical forests

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Assessing Forest Cover Change and Fragmentation in Northeastern British Columbia Using Landsat Images and a Geospatial Approach

scholarly article

Author Correction: Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Avoiding Unintended Outcomes from REDD

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Bias in protected-area location and its effects on long-term aspirations of biodiversity conventions.

scientific article

Biodiversity and REDD at Copenhagen

scientific article

Biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation: what role can economic instruments play?

scientific article published in 2010

Bolder science needed now for protected areas.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Canada’s human footprint reveals large intact areas juxtaposed against areas under immense anthropogenic pressure

scientific article published on 17 March 2022

Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals

article published in 2009

Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Cautious optimism over Norway-Indonesia REDD pact.

scientific article published in December 2010

Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Changes in human footprint drive changes in species extinction risk

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Changing trends and persisting biases in three decades of conservation science

article

Conservation planning with multiple organizations and objectives

scientific article published on 03 December 2010

Conservation strategies for orangutans: reintroduction versus habitat preservation and the benefits of sustainably logged forest

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Correction: Hotspots of human impact on threatened terrestrial vertebrates

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Corridors of carbon and biodiversity

scientific article published in 2014

Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Ecology: A global plan for nature conservation.

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Effective conservation requires clear objectives and prioritizing actions, not places or species

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

Efficient expansion of global protected areas requires simultaneous planning for species and ecosystems

scientific article

Erratum: Corrigendum: A global strategy for road building

scientific article published in Nature

Exotic species richness and native species endemism increase the impact of exotic species on islands

article

Gaps and opportunities for the World Heritage Convention to contribute to global wilderness conservation.

scientific article

Global Biodiversity Targets Require Both Sufficiency and Efficiency

Global human influence maps reveal clear opportunities in conserving Earth's remaining intact terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Global opportunities and challenges for transboundary conservation

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Global rarity of intact coastal regions

scientific article published in 2022

Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009.

scientific article published on 23 August 2016

Habitat loss accelerates for the endangered woodland caribou in western Canada

scientific article

Harnessing carbon payments to protect biodiversity

scientific article

Hotspots of human impact on threatened terrestrial vertebrates

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Humid tropical vertebrates are at lower risk of extinction and population decline in forests with higher structural integrity

scientific article published on 3 November 2022

Increasing importance of climate change and other threats to at-risk species in Canada

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Integrating human responses to climate change into conservation vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning

scientific article

Intense human pressure is widespread across terrestrial vertebrate ranges

scientific article published in March 2020

Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Limitations and trade-offs in the use of species distribution maps for protected area planning

scientific article published in 2016

Manage forests as protection against warming

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Managing Forests for Old-Growth Attributes Promote Greater Provision of Ecosystem Services than Current Age-Based Old-Growth Management Strategies

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Managing forests for old-growth attributes better promotes the provision of ecosystem services than current age-based old-growth management

scientific article published in 2022

Matrix condition mediates the effects of habitat fragmentation on species extinction risk

scientific article published on 01 February 2022

Measuring forest changes

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Mechanisms underlying the increase in young-of-the-year Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) density with habitat complexity

article published in 2008

National contributions to global ecosystem values

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

No evidence of local deforestation leakage from protected areas establishment in Brazil's Amazon and Atlantic Forest

scientific article published in 2022

One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure

scientific article published in Science

Opportunities for big data in conservation and sustainability

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

Persistent Disparities between Recent Rates of Habitat Conversion and Protection and Implications for Future Global Conservation Targets

Protect the last of the wild

scientific article published in Nature

Protect the last of the wild

Recent increases in human pressure and forest loss threaten many Natural World Heritage Sites

scholarly article by James R. Allan et al published February 2017 in Biological Conservation

Reconciling global priorities for conserving biodiversity habitat

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+): game changer or just another quick fix?

scientific article

Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Reserves in Context: Planning for Leakage from Protected Areas

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Response

article published in 2018

Restoration priorities to achieve the global protected area target

scientific article published on 06 April 2019

Set a global target for ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Severe human pressures in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2020

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

scientific article

Spatially explicit estimates of forest carbon emissions, mitigation costs and REDD+ opportunities in Indonesia

article

Strategies and alliances needed to protect forest from palm-oil industry

scientific article published in January 2008

Targeting global protected area expansion for imperiled biodiversity.

scientific article

Temporally inter-comparable maps of terrestrial wilderness and the Last of the Wild.

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

The Location and Protection Status of Earth's Diminishing Marine Wilderness

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

The Location and Protection Status of Earth’s Diminishing Marine Wilderness

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

The Spatial Distribution of Threats to Species in Australia

article

The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems.

scientific article

The extent and predictability of the biodiversity-carbon correlation

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

The human footprint represents observable human pressures: Reply to Kennedy et al

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

The importance of indigenous peoples' lands for the conservation of terrestrial mammals

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Three global conditions for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: an implementation framework

Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

scientific article published in 2021

Training future generations to deliver evidence‐based conservation and ecosystem management

scientific article

Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species

scientific article published in 2021

Validating Community-Led Forest Biomass Assessments

scientific article published on 30 June 2015